Colonization and slavery conditioned the current ecological crisis

Audio 48:30

In Lorrain, the only organic banana plantation in Martinique.

© RFI / Igor Strauss

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

49 mins

Colonization and slavery forged in the collective imagination a way of inhabiting the Earth which has largely participated in the ecological crisis that we are experiencing today.

Pollution, loss of biodiversity and climate change are the material traces of "colonial living".

(Replay)

Publicity

This is the thesis of our guest 

Malcolm Ferdinand

, engineer and philosopher, author of

A decolonial ecology, thinking ecology from the Caribbean world

, Seuil.

(Replay of January 7, 2021).

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